RobertLong

While I'm a fairly young developer and a freshman CS major. I've heard of the problems and horror stories associated with Java web development. But recently, I discovered Play Framework and I'm beginning to wonder why Java is given such a bad name in web development?

I'm studying at a California State college and nearly every school in the system teaches Java as their core language. Very few of these colleges have a single class that teaches web development. For someone who wants to pursue a career in web development, this is highly discouraging because I feel I am not learning the technologies I need for a job (such as Ruby and Python).

I read stories every day saying there is a lack of Ruby and Python developers. Yet, there are tons of great developers who are being taught Java and could pick up Play as easy as I have.

So I ask all of you, why not Java for web development? What's wrong with Play? And why are all these companies ignoring the fact that there is a shortage of Ruby and Python developers because most college students are learning Java?